Tuesday, May 17, 2016

A FILM BY DIRK VAN DEN EYNDEN

This is a movie directed by the great cinematographer Dirk
Van Den Eynden. Dirk contacted me about 3 years ago saying he wanted to do a
movie on me.Dirk has more than 300 movies made in his life on artists .
He started in the Seventies and ended up representing his country at the
biennale of Venice. His approach of filming an artist is very different from
what we usually know about an art film . He revolutionized the biography of the
artist . And this is how, he does not interview and he does not film . Ok that might
sounds strange to you but he asks the artist to give him hundreds of images, films
and texts that are important in the artist life. And from there he starts
composing with these images a great biographical symphony. The traditional documentary
will ask question to the artist and the artist will answer on a chair
sitting in front of his work. Dirk explodes this traditional code and the reason is that we
rarely say the truth about ourselves even when we are sincere memory and imagination tend
to fuse and give a false idea of our life to us and to the spectator . By
making a detour from a direct interview the director arrives directly at the center of the
brain of the artist and gives a TRUE picture of the self, not the one that we want to give
but the one ( very different ) that IS. Dirk Van Den Eynden realizes through his
films the dream of Art which is to merge reality and truth. It has been an honor to
be the subject of one of his film and more than this it has been a pleasure to become
his friend through the making of that film.To define his work I would happily coin the term of metaphysical biography!

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About Me

Marc Vinciguerra is a sculptor and painter who was trained as a philosopher.In 2005 His bronze The Homo-Crucifixis won the selection for a show judged by the curator of the Smithsonian Museum at the National Art Club in New-York City.He did numerous lectures on art and philosophy at universities including the department of theology of Loyola University on the subject of the future of Art and Religion.Marc Vinciguerra won the prize of the 2014 Alpine Fellowship , he was invited to join a group of scholars from Oxford and Cambridge University in a castle in Scotland to think the future of Art with the great english philosopher Roger Scruton author of BBC show ''Why Beauty Matters''.In 2015 he was invited to present a movie about his sculptures at the Foundation Cini in Venice .The artist was also the subject of a documentary directed by cinematographer Dirk Van Den Eynden who represented his country at the Biennale of Venice and produced by the director of The Museum Marino Marini .Marc Vinciguerra's work explores the sacred dimension of atheism.He is currently the sculptor in residence in Salzburg during the music festival.